ARCs for The Trouble with Demons
Look what arrived on my front porch on Thursday -- ARCs of The Trouble with Demons. : ) Two months from today, it'll be bookstores everywhere -- about danged time. I've been as impatient waiting for you all to read it as you have to get your hands on it.
However that also means that two months from yesterday, Bewitched & Betrayed is due to my publisher. Freakin' yikes! You guys should see my office. Normally, I'm a neat freak, but when I'm in the home stretch of writing a book, all thoughts of neat go right out the window. My focus is on the screen, not on the clutter that's on the desk and floor around the screen.
This weekend I'm rewriting a love scene chapter (Thank you, Linnea!!!), and then it's back to my one-chapter-a-day polish. That'll take back me up to Chapter 19 where I stopped writing. I anticipate 25 chapters. All that in eight weeks. Though I prefer to think of it as two months, it kinda sounds longer that way.
As to the ARCs of The Trouble with Demons . . . hopefully there are two more copies on the way from my publisher. (Thank you, Cam!!) I'd like to have a contest or two and get those ARCs into two readers' happy hands. Signed and personalized of course with additional book goodies.
Can you think of any fun (but easy for this overworked author) contest ideas?
Lisa
posted by Lisa Shearin at
7:44 AM
18 Comments:
Wow. I would love an ARC! But as for a contest... I can't think of anything good.
Good luck with B&B! I read 8 weeks as 8 months and was confused for a second... do you wish that you actually ad 8 months?
For the love scene... is it more of one than any of the scenes that we've already seen? Calling it a love scene makes it sound more official.
I was thinking about last week's snippet (thanks Lisa!) about Tam and Talon and I was wondering where Talon came from? Did you always want him to end up Piaras' friend? Did you always know he was Tam's son?
Kathryn, I wrote two books before writing what would become Magic Lost, Trouble Found. I consider those two books my "practice books" -- they're in my office closet where they will remain. ; )
Anonymous, I refer to anything as a love scene that has steam. As to where Talon came from . . . someone else asked that question and I can't remember where the kid first popped up. Actually he probably did just that -- appeared suddenly and demanded to be put in the story. And I didn't know immediately that he was Tam's son, just that he had a big secret.
The only contests I've entered lately just involved commenting on a blog entry and then having a random third party generator pick a winner. That's kind of boring, though.
Pick a favorite character and a "theme" song for them? Fantasy movie casting? Write another little essay on your favorite character? Another photo contest? Come up with a raunchy name for your bordello's madam? :-P
Lol, obviously I've never had to come up with ideas for a contest before.
Ooooh exciting!
And really scary all at the same time! Two months is not very long!
Though, I don't know, I work better on a deadline.... I'm a procrastinator. :D
Ooh, I like Otto's suggestions! Fantasy casting would be fun or the theme song thing. Oh, how fun! And what's better is that it would be for an ARC!!! Argh, I want to read it now!
I will definitely play any contest you come up with for the chance to get my hands on an ARC. ;)
Two months! And yet you show me a photo of the beautiful arc, so near yet so far :)
Good luck with the writing deadline. I'm sure you'll make it and give us another great book.
I want one! I want one! I'll do almost anything! Hmm contest ideas.....um... I can't think of anything that involves only you (Lisa) and the contestant. Sorry.
how about character parallels? You pick several characters, and we decide who they remind us of/who fits their character type? Kind of like fantasy casting, but with characters instead of actors...
Excitement is a-brewing! There's a love scene? It's about time :D Though now it's a matter of WHO!
Contest ideas...
* What vegetable/animal your characters would be
* Write a haiku/poem/theme song
* Guess what page chapter 5 start or when Raine first runs into trouble
* Guess the total word count of MLTF, M&A, and TTWD combined
* One fun one I did recently was a Mad Lib where we provided nouns, verbs, adjectives and it turned out that the author inserted them into a short passage from the book. That was interesting and hilarious!
I'm so excited! I better start counting down the days until April!
cecilia
That is neat. It's tempting, too, but the copy with the pretty cover that's already on order at my favorite bookstore will make a better Mother's Day present.
I do like that the April release means it's fairly convenient for Mother's Day. Mom's usually hard to shop for. {Smile, SMILE}
Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
Um, for the uninitiated what's an ARC? Something like a prepublication copy?
Oooo, I'd love an ARC.
The simplest contest would just be to have a drawing based the comments (i.e. everyone who comments to this post gets put in a hat and you draw a name). I recently did this on my blog, and got twice the number of readers in a very short time!
Although I also like Fantasy Movie Character....
Yunaleska, an ARC is an Advanced Reader Copy
it's the same as the book, except that you get it before the release date and it doesn't have the same cover as the published book
Ohhh, a love scene??? NOW you're talkin'. :) Can't wait. And I'll be wondering who the lucky Guardian or Goblin is, of course.
As for the contest, I like Ashley's idea. How about having contestants suggest a theme song for Raine. (I'm in.)
Sorry I haven't been jumping in and commenting. This chapter I'm writing is kicking my butt and I've got to finish it today (been working on it all weekend). But rest assured, I've read all of your comments and as soon as I can come up for air, I'll pick a contest theme.
I'm back to writing. ; )
A couple of things my English teachers used to make me do may be contest-appropriate. I've had to do these for "To Kill A Mockingbird," Shakespeare, and Greek Mythology...
- Rewrite a short scene from the POV of another character
- Pretend you are a newspaper reporter and write a short news-style report about the unfortunate incident with the canonball and the Elven embassy at the end of A&M
Post a photo and challenge people to give it a witty one-sentence title. You pick your favourite. Though, depending on how many people enter, that might actually take up a lot of time. :S
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